Chris Preimesberger

About

Chris J. Preimesberger is Editor Emeritus of eWEEK. In his 16 years and more than 5,000 articles at eWEEK, he distinguished himself in reporting and analysis of the business use of new-gen IT in a variety of sectors, including cloud computing, data center systems, storage, edge systems, security and others. In February 2017 and September 2018, Chris was named among the 250 most influential business journalists in the world (https://richtopia.com/inspirational-people/top-250-business-journalists/) by Richtopia, a UK research firm that used analytics to compile the ranking. He has won several national and regional awards for his work, including a 2011 Folio Award for a profile (https://www.eweek.com/cloud/marc-benioff-trend-seer-and-business-socialist/) of Salesforce founder/CEO Marc Benioff--the only time he has entered the competition. Previously, Chris was a founding editor of both IT Manager's Journal and DevX.com and was managing editor of Software Development magazine. He has been a stringer for the Associated Press since 1983 and resides in Silicon Valley.

Pivot3 Hyperconverged IT: Product Overview and Analysis

Company Name: Pivot3 (hyperconverged infrastructure and hybrid cloud solutions) Company description: Pivot3 is a privately-held company led by CEO Ron Nash. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Pivot3 has offices in Houston, Boulder, Dubai, Mexico City and throughout the UK and APAC regions. It has more than 2,600 customers in 63 countries and over 20,000 deployments in education, […]

Oracle Expands Cloud Business With Next-Gen Data Center in Canada

Oracle is throwing down a lot of dollars for a list of real estate investments in 2019 to enable its aggressive cloud strategy. The database and cloud services provider on Jan. 17 revealed exclusively to eWEEK the opening of a Toronto data center to support regional customer demand for Oracle’s public cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. […]

ProtectWise: Product Overview and Analysis

Company Name: ProtectWise, Inc. Company description: ProtectWise provides cloud-delivered network detection and response (NDR). Organizations can achieve defense in depth via advanced analytics in enterprise, cloud and industrial environments with real-time and retrospective detections. Full-fidelity packet captures, indexed and retained indefinitely, create a perfect, rapidly searchable network memory. By unifying detections and forensics in an […]

How to Choose the Right App Delivery Controller

Since the development of application delivery controllers (ADCs) in the early 2000s, demand for these solutions has steadily grown. In 2015, a study by Orbis Research found that at the time, the global ADC market was about $4 billion; it is expected to reach $9.8 billion by 2022. But this increase in demand was not […]

IT Science Case Study: Understanding How Customers Use Software

Here is the latest article in an eWEEK feature series called IT Science, in which we look at what actually happens at the intersection of new-gen IT and legacy systems. Unless it’s brand new and right off various assembly lines, servers, storage and networking inside every IT system can be considered “legacy.” This is because the […]

Six Reasons Why You May Want to Rethink Voice UI Strategy

While businesses certainly value new customers, even more valuable are loyal customers who continue doing business with the company. One way to keep them coming back is to build flawless customer experiences across each support channel—from text and web chat to email and voice. Consumers have always looked for the most efficient path to connect […]

Ping Identity Platform Review for 2021

Company description: Founded in 2002 by CEO Andre Durand, Ping Identity is headquartered in Denver, Colo. Ping Identity’s mission is to simplify how enterprises provide secure and seamless digital experiences. Ping focuses on simplifying how the world’s largest organizations prevent security breaches. Its solutions are designed to help increase user productivity and provide personalized customer […]

Predictions 2019: What’s in Store for Enterprise Information Practices

2018 was a landmark year in terms of impact to corporate data practices and compliance. The activation of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on May 25 was felt around the world, and a number of follow-on regional regulations are expected to be put into place in the coming months. Enforcement began to ramp up […]

Predictions 2019: How Enterprises Can Improve Software Delivery

DevOps isn’t a thing you buy; it’s a process you adopt, such as agile software development. DevOps is about constant improvement and seeking to move from DevOps 1.0 to 2.0 and further. DevOps is a software development methodology that combines software development with IT operations. The goal of DevOps is to shorten the systems development […]

IT Science Case Study: Finding Perfect Bolt-on for Existing ERP

Here is the latest article in an eWEEK feature series called IT Science, in which we look at what actually happens at the intersection of new-gen IT and legacy systems. Unless it’s brand new and right off various assembly lines, servers, storage and networking inside every IT system can be considered “legacy.” This is because the […]